GERMAN ENTERPRISE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 113, 4 May 1908, Page 2

GERMAN ENTERPRISE.

NEW GUINEA stnl'PING SUBSIDY, A BID EOR AUSTRALIAN TRADK, Received 'Jrd, 4.27 p.m. Berlin, May 2, The Budget Committee, by U to li adopted the New Guinea jn.iil vulo. herr Dernburg urged lli.il ;L wag de. siralile that yap Island should be a, port of call. The discussion showed Uiai the mail line services lietwecn Australia and the Ear Eiil were chielly designed to benefit by the subsidy. It was expected that if the company advertised itself in Australian waters for a few years, German enterprise would seenn a larger share of Austraiau trade than inthcrto. The speech of Mr. Price, Premier of South Australia, at Liverpool, contrasting tlie readiness of German shipping to avail itself of Hie improved facilities of Australian ports, compared with the Indifference, of British companies, is at-' "trading comment in Berlin. DEVELOPMENT OE NEW GUINEA. A LIBERAL SUGGESTION. Received 3rd, 4.27 p.m. Berlin, May 2. Herr Benningsen, former Governor of German New Guinea, referring to the, existence of gold there, suggested that diggers of any nationality he allowed to mine The Cologne Gazette suggests discussion on British and German mining rights along the frontier, and outlines proposals for the rectification «f tha frontier, making the Ilira river the naturjil boundary.